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Thank you for creating this board for me.I intend to post comments about a variety of topics, and then read the post and record it. I will then post a link to the recording so that you can listen to spoken English, as well as read the text.I'll post a link to the audio file as soon as I have persuaded Talk Merit to allow me to include links.The first audio file will be MP3 - please post a comment on the suggestion board if you prefer an alternative format.

Can you to record reading a text? Maybe is a good idea hear you and read to learn how we should pronounce the words.

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Please can you record by reading a post? I think it would be a good idea to be able to read the text, whilst listening to the recording. It would help us with the pronunciation.

This was the original plan, and I need to decide which location I should use as a studio.

If you want to improvise with the reading than I can take up the transcribing part of it if that'll save you a bit of effort.

I was also thinking about if there's a good podcast/radio station we could pick and find a transcript of and the audio to see if there's anything we could use. (Maybe a bitcoin related one, I found a few previously but they all seem to be in American accents which may be less easy to understand than an English one).

Onto the audio file itself. Talk merit, if you could record yourself and the music separately and then use a free software like audacity to blend the two (I don't mind doing this either if you send the two files).

I'm reluctant to include any off site services. The links to them were the reason that the Bitcoin Talk thread went to pieces.I'm not a fan of background music. In fact I've had to quit some YouTube videos because of the intrusive noise. I'm sorting out my van at the moment, and I'm planning on going beach hopping over the summer. So you might get seagulls in the background of the next one.

I've got 3 at the moment - a Berlingo that I need to scrap, but it's being used as a shed. The Scudo ( with the blown turbo) has become another shed, but I may scrap that as well, and an LDV Convoy hightop - I might turn that into a camper, as it's second only to the Volkswagen as an iconic conversion. I think I'll buy a large diesel estate car to replace the Scudo. They have become unfashionable, and there are some great deals around.

I've got 3 at the moment - a Berlingo that I need to scrap, but it's being used as a shed. The Scudo ( with the blown turbo) has become another shed, but I may scrap that as well, and an LDV Convoy hightop - I might turn that into a camper, as it's second only to the Volkswagen as an iconic conversion. I think I'll buy a large diesel estate car to replace the Scudo. They have become unfashionable, and there are some great deals around.

Not to mention the pollution levels from diesel that makes them much cheaper... If there's still a use for them instead of a van you may as well keep them (unless you get a nice amount of money for giving them up as scrap)?

Well I don't really want to get into a political discussion , but a well maintained diesel vehicle is less damaging for the environment than an electric or hybrid car. All electric cars do is to export pollution from the cities to the countryside. They scrapped electric trains, and now want to intoduce driverless convoys of electric lorries - this is the madness of current political thinking, and a desire to promote certain global businesses.

More than half of our energy was produced by renewables last year (I think that cites a specific date - but the level was about 52% for the whole of last year overall).

I think they import the wood pellets from the US or Canada, and they don't take account of the loss of agricultural land that is being filled with solar panels. They don't take account of the manufacturing of the panels and appliances either.

More than half of our energy was produced by renewables last year (I think that cites a specific date - but the level was about 52% for the whole of last year overall).

I think they import the wood pellets from the US or Canada, and they don't take account of the loss of agricultural land that is being filled with solar panels. They don't take account of the manufacturing of the panels and appliances either.

They're probably made in China so that would be difficult. But yeah. A lot of it comes from offshore wind turbines which can have birds fly into them while they're spinning and probably effect the sealife through the rusting and breaking of those turbines.